Reminds me of the Pikachu car George Barris did.
My thought as well. Non of these numb nuts will check if it’s thick enough though.
Q: What do you call a CyberTruck through the ice and now at the bottom of a lake?
A: A good start.
Ba dum Tish! I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
Seriously, I suspect a sunken CT is a lot less polluting than a sunken e.g. F-150. Lots less liquid petroleum. Until / unless the battery pack decides to short out. I’m not sure what the combustion products are or how polluting they are.
Aha! The old Titan gambit.
All vessels (and vehicles) can serve briefly as a submarine. At least once, anyway. ![]()
That’s more your department than mine, but I’ve heard it said that going down is the easy part. Coming up … aye, there’s the rub.
Yet another advantage to airplanes: We’ve never left one up there yet. Subs OTOH? Quite a few left on the bottom.
Joking aside, give a moment’s thought for the many, many folks who’ve been killed that way.
I saw something CT-related a couple weeks ago that I keep meaning to post here. I finally remembered …
We’ve probably passed peak CT around here, but they’re still pretty common. A day spent out and about will reliably encounter a couple of them either parked or driving.
Anyhow, a couple weeks ago I saw a CT driven by a woman. Which surprised me and made me realize I had never seen that before. And I like looking at other drivers when I can. So I suspect that really was the first one where the driver was visible from my POV and was female.
Anyone else noticed whether CT drivers are especially male or not?
Weird that you mention that. The one I see mostly in my neighborhood is driven by a middle-aged Hispanic woman. I’m not given to stereotyping but my subconscious is, and it keeps insisting she is someone’s maid/nanny who has been given the least desirable car in the household to use for running errands.
Someone at my workplace drove up in one not long ago. I made inquiries to find out who this person was, and found out it was a lady whose regular Tesla was in the shop, and she had been given the CT as a loaner. Can you imagine? “Nah, I’ll walk.”
IDK. If I was already a Tesla owner / driver I might like to try a CT as a loaner.
When I get my car serviced I always to try get a loaner or rental that’s something different that I might like to own. Or at least try on for size.
Given a CT as a loaner, or no loaner, I’d take it. A lot of the issues are with the ownership (cost, depreciation, difficulty to repair/maintain, etc), the image, and of course if you have the infrastructure to charge it. But it would be among my last choices. Because while it’s apparently reasonably easy to drive, I -do- care about the image, it’s too large to park easily or probably even get into my garage. The last two may be a non issue for people used to driving a vehicle that size, but I drive a Prius.
I certainly wouldn’t mind a test drive.
Saw a Tesla tonight, as it happens, with the bumper sticker, “BOUGHT BEFORE THE PLOT TWIST.”